>>>>> "Derek" == Derek R Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Derek> Found another bug in automake's support for dependencies using
Derek> BSD's make. This one is based on the fact that BSD make
Derek> doesn't allow comments to continue on the next line using '\'.
Derek> I just hooked into the existing conditional machinery instead
Derek> of stuffing "\@AMDEP\@" as the first item in the DEP_FILES
Derek> list, as used to happen.
This is a clever patch.
I'm going to check it in.
Derek> +2000-12-29 Derek Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Derek> +
Derek> + * automake.in (handle_dependencies): switched the DEP_FILES definition
Derek> + to use the &pretty_print conditional machinery rather than shoving
Derek> + "\@AMDEP\@" in as the first list element since BSD make doesn't seem to
Derek> + be able to handle backslashes for continuing comments on the following
Derek> + line
Derek> +
FYI explanatory comments belong in the program, not the ChangeLog. At
least, that's the automake style.
Tom
